A piece of equipment is incapable of maintaining process control for longer than 4 hours and has become a bottleneck, due to unforeseen tooling wear. Tool sharpening requires 2 hours to sharpen and move back into production. Which of the following correctives actions should be done first?

Which of the following would be the best way to cope with the uncertainty of demand?

There are a multitude of customer measures in use today. Which of the following would best describe what should be measured?

The production plan needs to be expressed in meaningful units that everyone understands. It also needs to be expressed in a manageable number of units. The best number of product groups or families would be:

If a company would like to build up inventory to meet an expected seasonal demand, the inventory increase would first be loaded to the:

For each product family, the number of units that can possibly be produced each month should be determined. This should be done by:

The person responsible for driving the sales and operations process should be the:

Listed below is the demand history for a product. If exponential smoothing is used with an alpha factor of .30, what would be the forecast for April?
Average: 100 units
January: 110 units
February: 120 units
March: 90 units

A data point which differs significantly from other data points can be defined as a(an):

Which of the following best explains the use of a tracking signal?

At times, data used to forecast will be of poor quality. Which of the following would be the correct action for the stated data quality problem?
I. Filter and adjust for abnormal demand
II. Accept data omissions and plan around them
III. Accept normal variations in the data
IV. Substitute for data omissions